Institute

Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School of Tallinn University (BFM) is a competence centre for communication and audio visual knowledge and expertise. At our School you can study at the Bachelor's and Master's level, in Estonian and English.

At BFM you can obtain a wide-based education in an international environment. Our study programmes offer tools and skills for working on various positions in film production, TV, new media, communication, choreography, art and music. Knowledge gathered at the Bachelor's level can be refined with our Master's programmes.

About 1100 students studies at BFM each semester. Around 120 students are from 40 different countries worldwide. BFM has over 70 partner universities in Europe and Asia.We off er a truly exciting mix of cultures that creates an invaluable professional network for your later career.

At BFM we believe in learning by doing. Our focus is on professional hands-on training designed for international careers in the world’s rapidly growing audiovisual and media industry.

We await all active and creative students, who wish to apply themselves in the exiting world of audio visual arts, communication and media. Our study programmes have been compiled in a way that in a few years, you will obtain both the theoretical basic knowledge as well as varied practical skills. All study programmes value internships and collaborative projects, which will give you an insight to the industry and the possibility to gather social capital both in Estonia and abroad, while still at the university.

BFM is equipped with modern video and sound equipment, we have our own TV studio, sound studios, an editing centre and a film studio. We provide students with free shooting and post-production equipment, studio space and production support for their creative works, supervised by established professionals from the audiovisual industry. BFM building houses Estonia’s fi rst 4K cinema hall in addition, BFM is home to Estonian Digital Centre, which off ers post-production services.

Study Areas at BFM:

CENTRES

Production Centre

BFM provides students with state of the art facilities and equipment to concieve, develop, shoot and finalise film and TV productions in a professional environment. Our Production Centre is equipped with professional video, audio and post-production gear that allows students to create a wide range of film, TV and new media content.

BFM Training

– Our target groups are companies, educational organisations, professionals and others who are interested. BFM Training offers trainings and workshops in the field of media, television, film, photography, arts and communication.

The purpose of MEDIT is to facilitate the initiation and implementation of highlevel and interdisciplinary research and development projects.

The interdisciplinary research in MEDIT focuses on cultural changes and innovation processes accompanying emergent digital media and audiovisual forms of communication, primarily from the combined perspectives of humanities and economic studies of innovation and media.

The creative and development work in MEDIT builds on the cooperation with media and cultural sector and aims at innovative projects incoporating forms of digital audiovisual media. We encourage companies in this sector to contact us for discussing our R&D services.